The14thGOD wrote:that doens't help me...
are you assuming everyone can read japanese?
and i thought there was something you could download to convert the japanese to english or something...
No, that's not what I'm saying.
how do you guys surf those sites that are in jap?or chinese symbols?
I found the question somewhat wacked out, as I thought it would be obivous that you need to know a language to understand a language.
However, you've made a good point here that I've lacked to mention:
You wrote:and i thought there was something you could download to convert the japanese to english or something...
Babelfish can help translate, although I won't say it always does a good job.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
Enter the URL of the page you want to translate(in this case,
http://www.project-fao.org/ ) and Choose
Japanese to English, and it should translate the page for you. (And from what I've seen, surprisingly pretty well, too.)